This year I decided to take part in Stitching Santa, a secret Santa for sewing bloggers organised by Sewchet. It was great fun having a nosy round someone else’s blog, working out what they would like for Christmas. It was equally a funny feeling to know someone else was having a nosy round my blog for the same reason…

My parcel arrived a couple of weeks ago and has been sat under our Christmas tree tempting me, I have to confess to the occasional squidge 🙂

Well today I could finally open it! My Stitching Santa has chosen to stay anonymous but I want to say a huge thank you to my secret Santa, my present is gorgeous!

In my parcel was a lovely length of fabric, it’s furnishing weight and I am very tempted to make an overnight bag from it. It’s a wonderful design with colourful birds, flowers and leaves, I think it will look great, maybe with some leather handles in one of the flower colours and a contrasting zip, I can picture it now…

There was a co-ordinating length of green spotty bias binding which I can use as a trim on my bag!

In my parcel was also two pretty pencils from the Tate Modern art gallery, which makes me think my secret Santa has a secret camera in my sewing room, never mind my blog, as I’m always searching for pencils!! Hopefully these will stay in my sewing room pencil pot ready for any tracing 🙂

So to my Secret Santa…

Thank you for a wonderful present 🙂